Terry cloth product



March 1, 1932. A. w. BAYLIS 1,847,807

TERRY CLOTH PRODUCT Filed Aug. 3, 1929 INVENTOR "Wm, [Al/1.00; BAH usATTORNEY Patented Mar. 1, 1932 a 1,347,301

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT WILIBUR BAYLIS, OF SCARSDhL E; NEWYomr V TERRY crorrr riionuo'r 'Application filed August 3, 192 9.- Seria1 No. 883,293.

My invention relates to the method of pro- 7 A stillfurther objectof-the invention is to v ducing color design in terry fabric and toproduce terry towels .having no borders so the product of the method.that the fabric may be run sidewise in the Heretofore terry clothembodying color deloom accompanied by a separate warp which 5 signs hasbeen greatly limited in the number While it isrun with the terry warpforming and types of designs and colors which may thebody of thetowelris only a narrow strip. be woven into its structure. To thosefamiat each side and the threads of this extrawarp: liar with thisparticular phase of the weavers are printed to provide a continuous runof art, it is well known that substantially all terry'fabric of plainweave with printed warp 10 color work in terry fabric is the result ofthe design borders. The material thus made is introduction into thestructure of dyed filler cut intotowel widths and the raw edgessuitthreads and in some instances dyed warp ably bound, the finishedtowel being a plain. threads. Inasmuch as these dyed threads Center nSides h ends a g a g take more or less parallel positions in the Theinvention will be best understood 7 15 fab ic construction, the coloredportions or when taken in connectionwith the *accom designs run instraight lines formingjbands, panying drawings, inwhich, Figure 1 is achecks or so called boxes and it is easily complan View of a terry towelin the. course of prehended how few variations in design may manufactureshowing the printed warp and be practiced as a result of this condition,In the design thereof passing into the material;

20 instances where more elaborate designs have f le an aftel beingWoven; Figure 2 is been Woven into theterry fabric, it has been alongitudinal section through a partly wonecessary to resort to the useof a dobby or ven towel showing the groundwarp threads jacquardattachment for the loom. The dyed h ving a printed design; and Figure 3is a threads in this method are still a part'of the p sp ctive view of acorner of a terry towel color scheme and, due to the inherent natureShowing the terry and the design as it would of the terry fabric, thedesigns are necessarily ppe r h n Work d up from the printed of largePen patterns and of very few colors. W rp threads; Another means ofproducing designs in Referring tothe drawings, 10 denotes the color andof great detail is by the production printed Warp threads which formsthe extremely expensive andare more perishable threads are boundtogether by he usual bindand are the result of an entirely differentart. 18 .1 filler 2-. Ill Will be clear that by the The production ofterry towels having color usevof @P re the latter will n) designs in anypart of their structure is then h h y y deslgh p e of vbelhg a matter ofutilizing dyed yarn and of Pn h 1h as hlhhy colors as heqhlhed 9 Pmanipulating the weaving of this yarn in a (111,09 the deslred efiecthdeslgh jacquard so as to produce the patterns. Rmnted the ground or l fl l With the foregoing in mind, it its the purme s i cloth" fatbr Whlch.1S 4O pose of the present invention to produce a embodied a design ofmulti-coloring which terry fabric having a design of any number ofcolors and of any degree of detail without resorting to the use eitherof dyed yarn or a would be practically impossible to duplicate with evena j acquard'attajchment.

Thedesignprinted on the groundwa-rpj threads will not appear lone ordrawn out J Jacquard or dobby attachment" I accomphsh because as theground war?) threads run 45 ohlect by hslhg 'Ph d Warp threfads throughin aisubstantially even,.smooth con- Whlch are worked p In h m thedition. It will be seen from the foregoing ground p of the terry cloth:thereby W that by means of my invention, I can produce the terry p W pContrast Wlth terry cloth towels, etc. on soft, yieldable Ina-c such ofthe design which shows through the; terial which will embody beautifulpatterns, terry fromthe ground of the material. unlimited in the numberof colors and type of chenille products but such products are g d Warp.The ground and terry. warp- Qv of design Whether flora-ls and leaves intheir true colors or other difficult or small, sharply defined patterns.It will also be seen that a floral design such as shown in Figure 1 maybe combined with contrasting or similarly designed and well-definedborder patterns and in combination-with center and border'designsmayhem-named as hereinabove 'ex-i plained by running the material eitherlengthwise or sideWise into the loom.

It will be understood 'fro'nrthe foregoing description that the designsand patterns produced by employing my inventionarep'ro duced by the useof printed; warp threads in;- 15 the manufacture of terry fabric, i. e.,towels in contra distinction to the use ofdyed yarn oritheproduction ofpatterns from'dyedfiller t contro'l'ledloydropiboxes or'dobby'orjacquardapparatusz" The metho'd I employ provides ar-a *means ifor' producingvery inexpensively;

terry'i towels which have "never before'been similarlyiknownor produced,7

HavinginoW described my invention" what I claim and desire-to "secure byLetters'Patent" of" the United states is: 7, 1. 1 A fabric; having=aterrylsurface; and in eluding: a'groundwarp,aterr .w'arp consist-'1 ingoffa plu-rality" ofloope threads; andthreads interwo en withsaid'warps'to bind adtheminto a finished fabric, said ground warp 1consisting .of threads upon which a design was printed preliminary tothe weaving thereof, said design being .visib'le5 inthe finished fabric;through the'loops of the' terry warp.- 35v" 2. :A' fa'bric, having 1aterrysurface, .andineludingaa ground warp, a warp consistiing; ofapluralityl 'of looped-threads, an'd th-reads interwoVenWith-said warpsto'-bind N them'into'afinishedfabric, said ground Warp 4o co'nsisti-n'gof threads upon which' 'a'design was printed preliminary to the weaving?thereof. v

3; As method of manufacturing; ter ry in which a plurality of war'p'threads are an fl ranged, some to -form a ground Warp and sorne to-securethe-terry orlike eifect', including the steps of: imprinting adesign onthe'threads making up the ground warp, and then inter Weaving"with all the Warp's other filler th18'3ld; I r i 4:. In themanufactureofterry, the produc tion"- of'fabrics' having designsVisible" theT- on; including the steps of: pr'eparingground and terry',warps,- imprinting a design upon the'g-round Warp, bringing the twowarps into their finalrelation for the production of thefabric; and theninterweaving the-warps to form thefabric. v Intestim'ony whereof affix ysignaturex 60 ALBERT WILBUR BAYEISL

